TCP Nice is a system intended to provide an abstraction of infinite
free network bandwidth for background data.
The primary goals are
(i) to eliminate interference with regular demand traffic, and (ii) to
reap a significant fraction of the spare network bandwidth available. Our
studies and analyses show that Nice can approximate prioritization at the
routers without modifying the routers at all, by just modifying the
sender side. Nice thus allows us to inject invisible traffic
into the network that makes good use of the spare bandwidth without affecting
the traffic already present.
The main paper describing TCP-Nice is here: